Bill, one of The Professor's childhood friends, is visiting San Francisco for a few days on business, and he and his bartender buddy are reminiscing about some of the adventures they shared a few decades ago.

"Remember when we rowed those people to shore from the floating island in Jamaica?"

"That's right," says Bill. "We saved them from the shoal of jellyfish and they bought us beer all afternoon."

The Jamaica Farewell is a drink created by Daniel Reichert, owner of Vintage Cocktails, a cocktail catering company that provides drinks for events such as gallery openings and private parties in Los Angeles. The Jamaica Farewell is made with rum, lime juice, bitters and Apry, an apricot brandy liqueur made by French liqueur producer Marie Brizard that's flavored with apricots from France and South Africa. Many fruit brandies are made from a neutral base, but this bottling is made with Cognac. It's very rich and flavorful.

Reichert likes to use Appleton Estate VX rum from Jamaica as the base for the Jamaica Farewell, and this, too, is a very special spirit. Bacardi 8, a rich Puerto Rican rum, could be substituted here, though, as could the 8-year- old Rhum Barbancourt Reserve Speciale from Haiti, or Mount Gay, a rum made in Barbados.

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The Professor pours the cocktails, the two old friends raise their glasses, and The Professor starts to sing "Jamaica Farewell," a song written - - along with "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" -- by Irving Burgie (a.k.a. Lord Burgess) in the 1950s, and made famous by singer Harry Belafonte.

But I'm sad to say

I'm on my way

I won't be back for many a day

My heart is down

My head is turning around

I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town.

Bill and The Professor smile large, clink glasses, and sip their Jamaica Farewell cocktails. The door opens and Regina, the raunchy waitress, strides into the bar to start her shift.

"I could hear you guys singing half a block away," she scolds The Professor. "And you still can't hold a note to save your life. Good old song, though. Jimmy Buffett. 'Feeding Frenzy' album, right?"

"It might have been on that album, Regina, but Harry Belafonte recorded it first, way back in the '50s."

"So you remember it from your college days, huh, Professor?" Regina walks back toward the kitchen, chuckling.

"That woman sure knows how to push my buttons, Bill."

"She's just the person I need right now, then. Think she'll tell me how to push the one that'll get me another cocktail?"